The Olympics. Where dreams are fulfilled and broken. Where sports is the hottest weapon in the Cold War. Where love and politics clash.
This Olympics film, tied in with the planned 1980 games from which the United States subsequently withdrew, focuses on an American athlete whose dreams of winning the Decathlon are threatened by his romance with a pretty Russian gymnast.
Stephanie Zimbalist David Keith Richard Lawson Victor French Merlin Olsen Ed McMahon Salome Jens Robert Pierce Jack Palance Nancy Marchand James Earl Jones Bryant Gumbel Charlie Jones O.J. Simpson Dick Enberg Caitlyn Jenner Kerry Sherman Sunny Johnson Nicholas Mele Paul Larson Diane Sommerfield Jeff Severson Denise Cheshire J.P. Bumstead Lance Rosen John Kelly Ken Foree Si Paciorek James Saito Wolfgang Linkman Owen Bush Helen Boll Emmett Brown Joanna Rush Tim Gallin Peter Jason Clyde Lucas
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